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Barking and Dagenham: what’s happening where you live

What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

London Borough of Barking and Dagenham: London borough (unitary), England, London; part of the GLA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E09000002.

Council website · Publication scheme · Disclosure log

Do it online

The council’s own service pages as listed by GOV.UK’s Local Links Manager (Open Government Licence), refreshed weekly; the same list of everyday services, in the same order, for every council, in GOV.UK’s wording.

Housing

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Transport

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Council tax

Band D set by Barking and Dagenham for 2026–27: £1,688.00 of a £2,198.51 total bill in the area. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

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Environment

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Education

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Changes to schools in this area recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

No school here is currently recorded as proposed to open or close.

In the last twelve months: 1 opened (1 new provision), 0 closed

SENARP Vibe Independent School — open; reason recorded: new provision, 19 January 2026

Get Information about Schools, DfE’s register of every school in England, refreshed daily (Open Government Licence). The register’s own reason is shown: most closures and openings are a school becoming an academy, which changes who runs it, not whether it is there.

What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

The budget for each service, as Barking and Dagenham reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Barking and Dagenham: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£373.2 million
Highways and transport services	£3.0 million
Children's social care	£87.9 million
Adult social care	£88.5 million
Public health	£22.6 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£11.4 million
Cultural and related services	£5.1 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£14.1 million
Planning and development services	£6.0 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£7.1 million
Other services	£26.5 million
Total service expenditure	£645.5 million

Net current expenditure: net of sales, fees and charges; spending funded by the NHS, such as through the Better Care Fund, is excluded.A minus figure means the service’s income is budgeted to be more than its spending. “None budgeted” usually means another body runs that service here. Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Revenue Account Budget 2026 to 2027, individual local authority data (part 1), updated 11 June 2026 (Open Government Licence).

Barking and Dagenham in numbers

Official statistics for the whole council area. Each figure is the latest published, with the period it covers.

Total population: 232,747 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 32 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £21,066 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £663 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 39.2% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsPercentage of children aged under 16 living in relative low income families After Housing Costs (AHC)
Claimant Count: 7.6% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £375,604 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 9.8 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 59.0 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for females born in the given year
Male healthy life expectancy: 59.6 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for males born in the given year
Greenhouse gas emissions: 3.3 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 95.3% 1 January 2026 · OfcomPercentage of premises that have coverage from a gigabit-capable service (download speeds of 1,000 Mbps or more)
Public electric vehicle chargers: 100.1 per 100,000 population 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublicly available electric vehicle chargers at all speeds per 100,000 people
Active businesses: 9,370 number of enterprises 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with turnover or employment in current year

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

51 seats in 2026. Run by: Labour, with a majority. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Labour Party 38, Reform UK 9, Green Party (E&W) 4.

Next scheduled council election: 2 May 2030.

All 51 councillors, by ward

Manzoor Hussain (Labour Party) — Abbey
Regina Rahman (Labour Party) — Abbey
Dorothy Akwaboah (Labour Party) — Alibon
Muazzam Sandhu (Labour Party) — Alibon
Cameron Geddes (Labour Party) — Barking Riverside
Josie Channer (Labour Party) — Barking Riverside
Marion Hull (Labour Party) — Barking Riverside
Donna Lumsden (Labour Party) — Beam
Glen Spoor (Labour Party) — Beam
Muhib Chowdhury (Labour Party) — Beam
Edna Fergus (Labour Party) — Becontree
Muhammad Saleem (Labour Party) — Becontree
Michel Pongo (Labour Party) — Chadwell Heath
Sade Bright (Labour Party) — Chadwell Heath
Simon Perry (Labour Party) — Chadwell Heath
Ben Suter (Reform UK) — Eastbrook & Rush Green
Ron Emin (Reform UK) — Eastbrook & Rush Green
Dominic Twomey (Labour Party) — Eastbury
Maureen Worby (Labour Party) — Eastbury
Mohammed Khan (Labour Party) — Eastbury
Alison Cormack (Labour Party) — Gascoigne
Moin Quadri (Green Party (E&W)) — Gascoigne
Nazrul Kazi (Green Party (E&W)) — Gascoigne
Caleb Van Ryneveld (Reform UK) — Goresbrook
George Miller (Reform UK) — Goresbrook
Manjeet Nandra (Reform UK) — Goresbrook
Harriet Spoor (Labour Party) — Heath
Ingrid Robinson (Labour Party) — Heath
Faruk Choudhury (Green Party (E&W)) — Longbridge
Mashkura Mazid (Green Party (E&W)) — Longbridge
Rocky Gill (Labour Party) — Longbridge
Faiza Noreen (Labour Party) — Mayesbrook
Kashif Haroon (Labour Party) — Mayesbrook
Shamsul Azam (Labour Party) — Mayesbrook
Giasuddin Miah (Labour Party) — Northbury
Saima Ashraf (Labour Party) — Northbury
Summya Sohaib (Labour Party) — Northbury
Alexandra Arnautu (Reform UK) — Parsloes
Billy Edmunds (Reform UK) — Parsloes
Ripon Sheikh (Reform UK) — Parsloes
Lucy Lee (Labour Party) — Thames View
Sabbir Zamee (Labour Party) — Thames View
Jane Jones (Labour Party) — Valence
Kim Barti (Reform UK) — Valence
Syed Ghani (Labour Party) — Valence
Ajanta Roy (Labour Party) — Village
Julia Williams (Labour Party) — Village
Phil Waker (Labour Party) — Village
Andrew Achilleos (Labour Party) — Whalebone
Mukhtar Yusuf (Labour Party) — Whalebone
Rubina Siddiqui (Labour Party) — Whalebone

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

This council’s meeting papers are not yet read automatically, so decisions and motions are not listed here; they are on the council’s website.

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